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title: "Of Internet phantoms that steal emotions"
date: 2015-12-18
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:19:49+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-09T09:11:12Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/of-internet-phantoms-that-steal-emotions-context-en/"
description: "Victoria Schwartz describes an Internet phenomenon that has received very little public attention to date: people who become victims of emotional connections to fake identities in social networks."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Header_Victoria_Schwarz_Real_Fakes.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# Of Internet phantoms that steal emotions